Great Weekend Reads in Photography & Filmmaking

“When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.”
― Maya Angelou

Film cuts, a rapid transition from scene to scene, should have disoriented humans who had never seen such a thing in nature before. And yet, we collectively took to the cinema like nerds to Comic Con. Aeon explores just why that is.